Someone's Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGI IJIJCKCK LFLFIMIIM| Someone's Mother trails the street | A |
| Wrapt in rotted rags | B |
| Broken slippers on her feet | A |
| Drearily she drags | B |
| Drifting in the bitter night | C |
| Gnawing gutter bread | D |
| With a face of tallow white | C |
| Listless as the dead | D |
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| Someone's Mother in the dim | E |
| Of the grey church wall | F |
| Hears within a Christmas hymn | E |
| One she can recall | F |
| From the h so long ago | G |
| When divinely far | H |
| in the holy alter glow | G |
| She would kneel in prayer | I |
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| Someone's Mother huddled there | I |
| Had so sweet a dream | J |
| Seemed the sky was Heaven's stair | I |
| Golden and agleam | J |
| Robed in gown Communion bright | C |
| Singingly she trod | K |
| Up and up the stair of light | C |
| And thee was waiting God | K |
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| Someone's Mother cowers down | L |
| By the old church wall | F |
| Soft above the sleeping town | L |
| Snow begins to fall | F |
| Now her rags are lily fair | I |
| but unproud is she | M |
| Someone's Mother is not there | I |
| Lo she climbs the starry stair | I |
| Only angels see | M |
Robert William Service
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